http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/congress-battles-over-payroll-tax-cut-extension-government-180339755.html
It's brinkmanship time yet again in Congress as lawmakers attempt to close out the year with votes to continue a payroll tax cut, extend long-term jobless benefits, and fund the government to avoid yet another shutdown.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle would like to pass some version of all of these measures, but discrepancies over how exactly to make that happen has gummed up progress in Congress. And both sides are using votes on the measures as bargaining chips.
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Zim: Personally, this 'issue' is yet another
example of what is wrong with congress. . .
'lets make a deal' . . . lets pack this 'bill'
with stuff I like so's I can vote to let you get
something you like. . . .
That keystone oil pipeline is packed into it . . .
though it really should be a stand alone bill
getting voted on for its own merits. That 'tax cut'
should be another bill. The measure to extend
unemployment (Un-Constitutional as it is) should
be yet another bill.
What do we gotta do to get the message across?
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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